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Brief History of Roger Harris
Born in Ohio in 1941 but raised in Indiana, I was a farm boy. My dad put me in the driver's seat of a Massey-Ferguson tractor
around age six. He had ulcers so I had to disc the newly plowed fields before he would give them the second discing. I grew
up with farming in my days and nights, watching an orphan piglet being kept in a box behind the wood-burning cookstove, helping
load baled hay onto wagons, catching chickens at night when they escaped the chicken coop. All of these were my early life.
It is a great way to live.
At age 17, I bowed at the altar of the local conservative church and gave myself away, to my Maker, Jesus Christ. That
is the most life changing experience of my life.
I married at age 24, had two biological children and adopted a street kid from the Philippines (who is now a US citizen
and living in Indiana). Feeling the call to do missionary work, I have worked in many countries and am now retired and living
in Asia.
Farming: it has always been a big part of my interest, especially botanical aspects of the profession. If I had not received
a call to missionary work, I would probably have been a farmer like my dad was.
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